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Covers the Scottsboro case since its inception as a 1931 freight car incident, accentuating national and international ramifications.

Enchanted by Nina Bonita's black skin, a white rabbit determines to find a way to have children as beautiful and black as she is.

"Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the...

Monograph comprising a biographical account of the life of a. Philip randolph and his leadership of the civil rights social movement against racial discrimination and of the Black labour movement in the USA - covers his early life, his fight against racial segregation, etc. Bibliography pp. 165 to 167 and illustrations. Biography randolph a.p.

"Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intimate portrait of an inner-city community that journalists and the public have viewed only from a distance. Challenging the conventional notion of public housing as a failure,...

Collection of writings on the effects (economic implications) of racial discrimination on Black poverty in the USA - covers racial inequality of employment opportunity, rural migration to urban area slum neighbourhoods, housing discrimination, public opinion concerning the social integration of negroes, government policy, etc. Bibliography pp. 184 to 186 and statistical tables.

Traces the birth of the American civil rights movement and profiles Martin Luther King, Jr., detailing the roles played by key figures around him and in government.

"Is the United States justified in seeing itself as a meritocracy, where stark inequalities in pay and employment reflect differences in skills, education, and effort? Or does racial discrimination still permeate the labor market, resulting in the systematic underhiring and underpaying of racial minorities, regardless of merit? Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s African Americans have lost ground to whites in the labor market, but this widening...

"A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. Mr. Osofsky sets his chronicle against the background of pre-Harlem black life in New York City and in the context of the radical changes in race relations in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but among blacks as well. Key factors discussed here include the persistence of urban poverty, economic opportunities and changes in family structure.